We DO have a soul a debate run by spirituality

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I think we do have a soul !

 

There is no way to describe what I experience without a soul that transcends the personality. There is something in us which is more than my habits, limitations and combined past.
According to Christianity and Islam we each have an immortal soul, that may rot in hell if we don't behave. According to Hinduism we have a soul (atma) that will reincarnate till we grow enlightened (or awake) enough to not need to reincarnate any further. Buddhism agrees on the reincarnation, but some Buddhists believe that what reincarnates changes too much to be called a soul (anatma). Psychologists agree we have a personality, but don't know about what happens after we die.

Books on how to grow your SOUL 

The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul

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Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child

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Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World

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A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss

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Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul

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Neurology doesn't agree 

Mainstream neurology doesn't think we have a soul. They measure brain-activity and think that that's what there is to our consciousness. Our sense of 'I am I' is, to them, merely a side product of the complex workings of the brain.

Books on neurology 

Our brains have some weird things going on in there. Here's some books on the ins and outs.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

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The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better

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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

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Clinical Neuroanatomy Made Ridiculously Simple (3rd Edition; Book & CD-ROM)

Amazon Price: $20.66 (as of 07/25/2008)

Humans don't have a soul - links 

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I could not find many publicly available articles online that explain just why people often disagree with my point. So please help.

Do Humans Have Souls?

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The No-Soul doctrine in Buddhism explained

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Biology, Consciousness, and the Definition of Death

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NDE's prove my point 

Near Death Experiences (NDE) as proof for the soul

One of the things that is most puzzling about our consciousness is that it doesn't just stop when our brain does.

When a person gets medically labeled as 'brain-dead' - yet wakes up hours, days or even weeks later (and yes, that happens sometimes) - they often report experiences of all kinds of things. That's called a Near Death Experience. Some of those experiences sound a lot like the reports about what happens after we die by Tibetan Lama's. Others sound like they were actually conscious and knew what was happening around them.

To me it seems that science can't have it both ways: either the brain was not dead, and that explains why consciousness didn't stop - or the brain was dead and consciousness restarted the brain somehow. If it's the first: then people don't die as quickly as medicine would like us to - in order for them to harvest organs for organ-transplants. If the second: the soul does exist.

Books on Near Death Experiences (NDE) 

Beyond The Veil/NDE Near Death Experiences

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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

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Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives

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Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon--Survival of Bodily Death

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People do have a soul - links 

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Suicide is not death

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Do we have a soul?

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Transforming the Self

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Eugen's Basic View of the Soul

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Expanding Our Centre of Consciousness

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From Within Outwards: the Way of the Universe - John Algeo

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Books on the anatta (no-soul) doctrine in Buddhism 

Theravada Buddhism books on the anatta doctrine. Theravada Buddhism claims to be closest to the doctrines of the Buddha himself. Still, the interpretation of 'no-soul' may rest on a misinterpretation of his teachings.

The Buddha's Doctrine of Anatta

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Anatta/Anatmata: An Analysis of Buddhist Anti-Substantialist Crusade (Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series)

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THE TRUTH OF ANATTA.

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Anatta and Nibbana: Egolessness and Deliverance (Wheel Publication, 11)

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An Introduction to the Doctrine of Anatta

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Books on Vedanta: there IS a Soul (Atma) 

Vedanta (Advaita Vedanta to be exact) is a holistic Indian philosophy in which ultimately the human divine soul (atma) is seen as identical with the divine in the universe (Brahman).

The Wisdom of Vedanta

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History Of Mysticism: The Unchanging Testament (3rd Rev. Ed.)

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Dogs, Cats and Dreams of Spiritual Awakening

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The Outrageous Myths of Enlightenment

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Self analysis and self knowledge: Based on Atma bodha of Shankaracharya

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Do we have a soul? Your turn to talk! 

We DO have a soul

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Yes, of course we do!

Mysticshakra says:

Only a small percentage of people have souls. A soul is built by pondering on one's identity, it is not given by default. Everything in the Universe requires an exchange of energy, nothing is for nothing. Like muscles, building your soul takes effort.

JaneDoe01 says:

I don't know about some people in the world, but I certainly know that I have a soul.

HealthBug says:

Dead sure, man isn't lifeless like a machine. Feelings and emotions are attributes of a soul.

Brahman says:

I'm going to proof its existence in the near future. Less than a year.

RinchenChodron says:

Buddhists just don't use the term sole. They do believe that our essense comes back when we reincarnate. It is just a different way to say same thing.

No way, our sense of 'I' is a neurological side-effect

 
 
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Christine

I put this page in my favs, it's great! I love how more & more folks who really understand that we are way more than just a sack of mingling organic molecules are starting to speak out against extreme materialism. I had an nde (watch my video at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdt7A83keqE)...and something happened during the experience that cannot be explained by science. Feel free to check it out and give your (respectful) opinion.

Posted July 22, 2008

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Posted July 11, 2008

serramark71

I'm sure we have! Last week, my grandma died and my 2-year-old nephew, a son of my cousin, was sitting on a dinner chair facing his great-grandma's picture pointing to it shouting "Grandma, grandma" then, turns to point towards an empty chair and shout again, "Grandma grandma", then, back & forth! I'm sure it was grandma's soul he saw that time.

-Mark Serra ( Soul Checks, Angel Checks , etc.)

Posted July 06, 2008

HealthBug

A perfect debate, but facts are facts and they exist the way they are over and above these arguments.

Posted June 25, 2008

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